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Post by fireraven1379 on Jun 29, 2006 22:31:59 GMT -5
For the last 9 weeks I've been taking a Chan (Zen) Buddhist Meditation class. The Meditation techniques are wonderful and it is very calming and for some reason I don't feel as tired before I started doing it. There is only one thing though. At the center I started to get a lot of negative energy bombardment which shouldn't be at a Buddhist Monastery. I've started doing protection circles which help block but it unnerves me that a place that should be full of peace and harmony started having that type of energy about 4 weeks into the session. If any one can give me any other ideas of why this is happening and/or combat it let me know. Thanks. fireraven
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Post by Senbecc on Jul 2, 2006 9:21:30 GMT -5
For the last 9 weeks I've been taking a Chan (Zen) Buddhist Meditation class. The Meditation techniques are wonderful and it is very calming and for some reason I don't feel as tired before I started doing it. There is only one thing though. At the center I started to get a lot of negative energy bombardment which shouldn't be at a Buddhist Monastery. I've started doing protection circles which help block but it unnerves me that a place that should be full of peace and harmony started having that type of energy about 4 weeks into the session. If any one can give me any other ideas of why this is happening and/or combat it let me know. Thanks. fireraven Well, my specialty isn't Zen, but I feel that your first mistake would be to "fight" it. Nothing within the self can ever be forced. It's like forcing open a flower bulb. It can be forced open but would never look like it should. I think your best bet may be to simply try to work past it.
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Post by fireraven1379 on Jul 3, 2006 21:59:07 GMT -5
Thanks Senbecc for the advice. When it first started happening it scared me because I've had this happen once before when I first started any type of meditation. Then I had talked to the fire keeper at the Pow Wow in Lake Geneva because the experience startled me out of the meditation. The suggestion I got then was to smudge my space before meditating. Well when it happened at the center ,which it had been years later, it frightened me and I really don't want to experience the things that happened last time. I open to suggestions of any type. I still go and I press on because I enjoy the meditation and the talk after the meditation. fireraven
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Post by Senbecc on Jul 13, 2006 8:42:38 GMT -5
Thanks Senbecc for the advice. When it first started happening it scared me because I've had this happen once before when I first started any type of meditation. Then I had talked to the fire keeper at the Pow Wow in Lake Geneva because the experience startled me out of the meditation. The suggestion I got then was to smudge my space before meditating. Well when it happened at the center ,which it had been years later, it frightened me and I really don't want to experience the things that happened last time. I open to suggestions of any type. I still go and I press on because I enjoy the meditation and the talk after the meditation. fireraven So you have Pow wows there as well? Here in S.D. I like to go down to the local civic center and watch the Lakota's dance their rites. Even though we're indoors one can feel the Native past coming alive and feel the pre-white history and tradition in their words and movments. Learn to read their story telling dances, and from there you will begin to see what you seek begin to unfold.
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Post by fireraven1379 on Jul 14, 2006 19:19:52 GMT -5
Back home we do. I'm originally from the northeast corner of Illinois. The Patowatimi and some of the other local tribes hold about 4 or 5 a year in our area. I've heard of there being one in Louisana out towards Kinder and there has to be one somewhere here in Texas but it's not real big down here except if you cross into Oklahoma or Mississippi. Back in Lake Geneva Wis. I started to make a few friends and was able to learn some traditional dances but I moved away to Germany and I was the resident Fry bread maker for the guys that hadn't been back to Wisconsin for years. I still remember the one guy coming over and conviscating 3 of them. LOL On a more serious note. Most of the Pow Wows back home are held outside except for the few that happen during the winter and early spring when it is too cold and wet to be outside. I miss the way it feels to dance and being around the music and the energy nothing quit can compare except for a few open circle rituals I've been too. Do you dance at the Pow Wows or are they not that open up in SD. I know back home the Pow Wows except for Indian Summer up in Milwaukee are not competition Pow Wows. Well I got to go Talk more later Fireraven
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